Media

Gordon Brown launches tv station

In Britain, Media, Politics on 8 August 2008 with no comments

Gordon Brown attemps an end-run on the media gatekeepers by launching his own TV station, Number10T.
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Why is Portland so hot?

In Livability, Media, Portland, Sustainability, Transportation on 5 November 2007 with no comments

The media is obsessed with Portland. Why? The city’s own Willamette Week is on it:
Yeah, we know Portland’s hot shit. But we wanted to prove it to the world. So we did a search of all things Portland on LexisNexis, a really powerful search engine that looks for content from newspapers, magazines, and anything news-related. [...]

New Yorker profiles David Simon of The Wire

In Baltimore, Crime, Film & Television, Media on 19 October 2007 with no comments

The most recent New Yorker profiles David Simon, co-creator of The Wire. The new season centers on the newsroom of the Baltimore Sun and features actor/director Clark Johnson as editor Gus Haynes:
In the season opener, Haynes provides a bitingly funny introduction to newsroom culture. He complains about a photographer who invariably gooses the poignancy of [...]